oldpersonintx

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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Because the US is asking Europe to defend itself eighty years after ww2
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
for decades we have prioritized market gains over jobs HN constantly derides the "number goes up" mentality so, Trump is in agreement he is saying he will prioritize jobs over "number goes up"
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
love it! finally something for the "/r/nothingeverhappens" people to latch on to! be careful turning off the power to NYC...your brokerage accounts in Canada might stop working!
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
long overdue the cartels are not just a problem for Mexico and the US, they are a global scourge once free from the cartels, Mexico will become a major global economic power
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Newsom should be thankful for this opportunity to end the nightmare of HSR once and for all and blame it on Trump! HSR is now the greatest infrastructure boondoggle in US history, and its "record" will get worse the longer it goes
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
you've had twenty years to build an EU-native alternative...what do you have to show us? the EU has settled for using US tech but just taxing the success with fines
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
whenever someone uses the phrase: "it's not a sprint, it's a marathon" , I suggest they go to a world-class marathon and watch the first few runners these folks are basically at a light sprint
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
If a fire like that hits your neighborhood, clear out and pray your home is razed. Smoke smell never leaves In the same way it is desirable for your car to be deemed a write off after an accident
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
if you want to get mad, get mad at the RTO orders in almost every case, these folks seems to be remote workers who can't/won't comply with RTO so they are taking a payout
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
> (yes, this is direct from stoicism) stoics don't write multi-paragraph goodbye letters
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Ukraine is an independent nation if the EU wants to bankroll and arm Ukraine, and Ukraine wants to go on fighting, then by all means proceed the outcome will be the same, just with more death and destruction look at maps - Ukraine is not wi
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
regardless of what else you might think of this, eight months severance is well beyond anything I have seen from private industry if they are allowed to retain some sort of pro-rated portion of their retirement benefits, I can see a lot of
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
decades of government rot finally being subjected to the most trivial auditing and you have liberals invoking the Reichstag fire is this where we are? you literally cannot have even demand trivial operational competency without being called
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
intersection of geek-cred author + hipster language but its actually fine software
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Go and Python are both firmly rooted in anti-cleverness Cleverness makes for macho code golfing and aha moments in small codebases Cleverness makes you quit your job when the codebases pass 10k lines
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
this is actually an incredible offer compared to current standards for severance in private industry if my current employer offered a similar buyout, I would jump on it instantly buyouts are an honorable way of reducing headcount - both sid
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
yeah this is just someone losing their work virginity the real pro-level insight is understanding that the people left behind are often in a worse position - inertia keeps them locked into a dying company
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
LBJ literally destroyed the soul of black America by turning them into a welfare society he did succeed in getting "them" to "vote for us for the next two hundred years" which is exactly a part of the quote attributed to
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Who is "we"? This isn't your money
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Every scenario for Canadian "retaliation" makes weird and inaccurate assumptions about Canadian capacity and capabilities. Canada has hollowed out its economy and reduced itself to real estate Ponzi schemes or exporting raw resour
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
> I'm not at work to make friends, Most of my great friends I met at work
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
After years of research, our mole discovered that "militia" members liked to dress in plus-sized camo and shoot legally-owned ARs on private property...
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Samsung is going for 2nm in Taylor TX
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
longtime FM user here good on them, understanding infrastructure and cost/benefit is essential in any business you hope to run for the long haul
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
if a bunch of very unhealthy people die off in a short period of time, the general public will appear, statistically, to be healthier
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
> what do you do when people turn out to need social scientists? avail yourself of the thousands still at work in other allied societies the world has more people at work pursuing pure academics than ever, and they are sharing their work
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
the demos are amazing I need to rewire my brain for the power of these tools this plus the quantum stuff...Google is on a win streak
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
I can go a week now without receiving a single useful email...gmail or fastmail are fine
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Ukraine is also exhausted its time for America to stop pushing Ukrainians into the firing line
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
this seems mostly about VW, a company that is both a huge presence in the EU economy and probably irrevocably f---ed VW is slowly vanishing from US markets (EV or ICE) and tried to enter the Chinese market only to get the crap kicked out of

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